Grammar Learning Strategies Among the First Year Students of Public Senior High School in Temanggung

Abstract

This present study aims to describe Grammar Learning Strategies among The First Year Students of Public Senior High School in Temanggung. To achieve this goal, this research uses quantitative research in the form of survey studies. The original questionnaire used in this thesis was from Pawlak (2009b, 2013), there are four domains that is Metacognitive strategy, Cognitive strategy, Affective strategy, and Social strategy. The respondents of this study amounted to 60 students of first year at Senior High School in Temanggung. The results showed that cognitive strategies were found to be the most frequently used strategy among the first year students of public senior high school showed by the result of the questionnaire highest mean score 4.21, the second most used strategy was social strategy with mean score 4.07, the third strategy most widely used is the metacognitive strategy with mean score 4.04, the least used strategy is the affective strategy with mean score 3.78. This research also showed that most students use various electronic resources to figure out rules, apply new rules carefully and accurately in specific sentences, notice and self-correct their mistakes when practicing grammar, read for pleasure and watch television to improve their knowledge of grammar, and use Google or other search engines to see how a specific grammar structure is used in meaningful contexts.